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Farm­house in Menlo Park was orig­i­nally a car­riage house at the time of its 1919 con­struc­tion.

Awel­com­ing am­bi­ence ra­di­ates through­out this farm­house-style home, open over the week­end in Menlo Park. There’s an air of con­ge­nial­ity ex­tended by invit­ing pub­lic rooms, a show­case chef’s kitchen and be­d­rooms with en suite bath­rooms.

Orig­i­nally built in 1919, the struc­ture served as a car­riage house for a nearby es­tate. Over time the es­tate was sub­di­vided, and in the 1930s or ’40s, the two-story struc­ture be­came a fam­ily home. Gra­noski’s clients in­vested sub­stan­tial time, thought and cap­i­tal into the four-bed­room home, re­fin­ing the res­i­dence and adding lux­u­ri­ous ex­tras like a wine cel­lar and a sauna.

The re­sult is pure el­e­gance. “All spa­ces have a pur­pose,” Gra­noski said. “Ev­ery­thing func­tions so smoothly.”

The home opens to a liv­ing room with a gas fire­place, then passes through a bonus room with a beamed ceil­ing and stone ac­cent wall. The open kitchen re­volves around a gran­ite­topped is­land with bar seat­ing, and ac­cesses the land­scaped rear gar­den.

Four be­d­rooms, in­clud­ing a lav­ish mas­ter suite of­fer­ing a free­stand­ing soak­ing tub and a walk-in rain shower with mul­ti­ple body sprayers, re­side on the up­per level. The mas­ter suite also in­cludes a pair of dress­ing room clos­ets.

Lo­cated in the Fair Oaks neigh­bor­hood, the 4,556square-foot home rests on a man­i­cured lot be­hind an en­try gate. Climb­ing plants twist around the front porch trel­lis as a gen­tly slop­ing lawn stretches be­fore the home. A stone pa­tio waits out back, along with a de­tached stu­dio that could house an of­fice or ex­er­cise room.